Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 19 October 1971.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74984, -4.79940
- Cadw reference
- 17924
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
SE of the lighthouse, within the walled enclosure which surrounds it.
History
Additional accommodation for lighthouse keepers, probably built c1873 (the date when the optical equiment was changed), and to a standard Trinity house design. Visible in John Thomas photograph of 1886.
Exterior
Lighthouse keepers' quarters. Whitewashed render over stone; hipped slate roof, with two axial stacks painted black. Doorways central in each gable end, with flanking windows. These, and the 3 W-facing windows, have wood-mullioned and transomed lights. Grouped windows of 1 and 2 lights in the E-facing elevation.
Interior
Internal plan has central corridor with living rooms opening off it.
Reason for designation
Part of a coherent group of buildings associated with the lighthouse, and an intact example of the later C19 type of accommodation provided by Trinity House.
Nearby in the register
- Stores Buildings at Bardsey LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Bardsey Island Lighthouse with attached keepers' houseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Compound Walls at Bardsey LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.